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Neuroscience

How Phantom Limb Tricks Us

New maps of the brain may explain why amputees feel pain in the void

August 26, 2025

What We Still Get Wrong About Psychopaths

Many scientists portray psychopathy as a brain disorder, despite a lack of evidence

Does Anybody Really Know What Time Is?

Yes, your brain does. It created it.

July 8, 2025

Is It Cake? How Our Brain Deciphers Materials

Neuroscientists are discovering how this basic ability, essential to our survival, works

July 3, 2025

The Science of Tripping Comes to Town

The many challenges of studying psychedelics

Finding Peter Putnam

The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind

June 17, 2025

My Visit with My Dead Father’s Brain

What I discovered about my dad and myself at the lab where his brain resides

Inside the Big Bet on Consciousness

The real winner in the battle between two leading theories of consciousness was science itself

April 30, 2025

Why Our Brains Crave Ideology

A neuroscientist reveals how to nurture authentic and flexible thinking

April 11, 2025

The Hallucinatory Thoughts of the Dying Mind

Delirium exposes the gap between the ideal and the reality

February 12, 2025

When Other People’s Chewing Causes You Pain

Social relationships might shape a neurological disorder

February 10, 2025